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Family of drowned boy takes aim at police

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Family of drowned boy takes aim at police

The family of the 14-year-old boy who drowned on Sunday in the Berbice River has criticized the police response. They stated that the two-hour wait for the police might have cost the...

Bhajan responds to furniture allegation

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bhajan responds to furniture allegation

Region Six Education Officer, Mrs. Shafiran Bhajan, has stated that an article captioned ‘Students take Education Officer to Task….during visit to Office of the President’ had...

Schoolgirl battles for life

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolgirl battles for life

A third form Anna Regina Multilateral Secondary School student is battling for her life. She remains in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, after she was...

Enforcing gold mining regulations a mammoth task

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Enforcing gold mining regulations a mammoth task

There are 7,000 registered gold mining dredges scattered all over Guyana’s hinterland and less than 100 Mines Officers within the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to monitor their...

Unavailability of prosecutor stalls High Court proceedings

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Unavailability of prosecutor stalls High Court proceedings

The High Court criminal proceedings which are being heard by Justice Brassington Reynolds in the Berbice High Court have been severely curtailed by the unavailability of a prosecutor. The...

New money and the society

Mar 14, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on New money and the society

Slowly but surely Guyana is finding ways of preventing people from walking around with large sums of cash to conduct the most basic of transactions. Traditionally Guyanese were accustomed to...

GBTI makes donation to GPHC

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GBTI makes donation to GPHC

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry recently donated six clocks for use in wards and clinics of the Georgetown Public Hospital. GBTI’s Marketing Representative Devi Persaud handed...

Argentina objects to Falklands’ referendum

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Argentina objects to Falklands’ referendum

Following a referendum which saw residents of Falklands Islands, South Atlantic, voting to stay under the rule of the British, Argentina’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has expressed its strong...

Security guard jailed for theft

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard jailed for theft

Puran Persaud, a security guard and alcoholic attached at the Essequibo Technical Institute, was on Wednesday sentenced to two years imprisonment by Magistrate Sunil Scarce, after he admitted...

Falklands see referendum as a new dawn

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Falklands see referendum as a new dawn

Gavin Short, a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Falklands, announced, “This morning my fellow Falkland Islanders and I woke up to a new future. Last night, our country made its voice...

Brother set free, other for retrial in beating murder trial

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brother set free, other for retrial in beating murder trial

One brother woke up a free man this morning while his elder sibling will have to face another trial after a 12-member mix jury decided their fates yesterday. Presiding over the matter was...

Boat captain placed on $200,000 bail for wounding fellow captain

Mar 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Boat captain placed on $200,000 bail for wounding fellow captain

Richard Griffith, a fisherman and captain of his boat, was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail for wounding Nawab Mohamed. He pleaded not guilty when he appeared at the Georgetown’s...

Those managing our country’s resources never cease to stun me

Mar 14, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those managing our country’s resources never cease to stun me

Dear Editor, The so-called highly qualified individuals that manage our resources in this country never cease to stun me. The latest evidence of their incompetence is the construction of a...

An intriguing question

Mar 14, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on An intriguing question

Dear Editor, “Are white people superior to non-whites?” An intriguing question. I am still trying to figure out whether the descriptions ‘intelligent’ and ‘knowledgeable’ are used...

Why not introduce a Taj Mahal Tax on homes worth more than $20 million?

Mar 14, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why not introduce a Taj Mahal Tax on homes worth more than $20 million?

Dear Editor, As supporters of the poor and the working class in Guyana, we ask, why to date has the Presidential Tax Reform Commission not met and deliberated on this much vexed question of...

Guyana: a dangerous country?

Mar 14, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana: a dangerous country?

Dear Editor, In my few years of living in this country, I have often questioned the general acceptance of mediocrity and widespread unprofessionalism evident in the society at large. It is...

Awareness of accountability and a system desperately in need of reform

Mar 14, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Awareness of accountability and a system desperately in need of reform

Dear Editor, The country seems to be unsure about what policing is about, and what kinds of accountability should be demanded from the Minister of Home Affairs. Over the last 12 months, we...

Is Mr. Kissoon preparing to join the communist PPP?

Mar 14, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Mr. Kissoon preparing to join the communist PPP?

Dear Editor, Mr. Kissoon spent much of his letter, “The ethnic supremacists are going to maul Bhagwan over his admission” (KN, 11-03-13) deriding me about my line, “While some are asleep...

Muse, amused, bemused, confused

Mar 14, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Muse, amused, bemused, confused

One of the harsh cruelties of life for me is the acceptance by society worldwide, of people who have achieved fame, eminence, status or wealth and in the process societal recognition. People flock...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more